Seungho Lee (KR/FI) is the first micro-resident of 2013 from 18-22.2. Based in Helsinki, he will join the Pixelache office to consider and discuss the Food-info-activism theme of Pixelversity programme, from the perspective of strategic design and policy intervention.

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BIO

Seungho Lee is a strategic designer, lecturer and design researcher working and residing in Helsinki. He initiated Beef Finland project in 2012 in which he investigated the ramifications of beef-eating at a global scale, as well as in Finnish context, on which he has given talks in Helsinki, New York, and Shanghai. He currently teaches at Aalto University, where he is a doctoral candidate and member of NODUS Sustainable Design Research Group.

Seungho has previously worked for the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra and design consultancies in Helsinki and Seoul. He is co-founder of About Blank, a Helsinki-Seoul based design-and-manufacturing firm. Seungho was the winner of ScienceSlam MoA in 2012, and the recipient of the Korea’s Next Generation Design Leaders Grant by KIDP, the Korea Institute of Design Promotion, in 2009.

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This post is made as the epilogue of my micro-residency at Pixelache during March 18-22 2013. You can find a post on my blog about my expectations and anticipation made on the first day, which was for me to make sense of the collaboration. It's been already two weeks after I've spent my time in Pixelache. It was rather short, in part because I was ill for a day, but also Pixelache's mode of operations was quite hard to comprehend in the beginning as to why Pixelache is interested in Food-Info-Activism. Having started mainly with electronic arts in its inception, it seemed Pixelache and its...

Seungho Lee is the first micro-resident of 2013 in Pixelache office from 18-22.2. to consider and discuss the Food-info-activism theme of Pixelversity 2013 programme, from the perspective of strategic design and policy intervention. Seungho Lee (KR/FI) is a strategic designer, lecturer and design researcher working and residing in Helsinki. He initiated Beef Finland project in 2012 in which he investigated the ramifications of beef-eating at a global scale, as well as in Finnish context, on which he has given talks in Helsinki, New York, and Shanghai. He currently teaches at Aalto...